Actress Samantha's recent tweet about a “regressive” Telugu movie poster had her under fire.
Hundreds of what appeared as Mahesh Babu fans, fired off threatening messages against the actress on the social network.
Even rumoured boyfriend Siddharth was not spared by the horde, which tweeted under the handle #GetLostSamanthaAndSiddharth
One Santosh Reddy (handle @alumalla) wrote, You feel that you are too smart. But the fact is that u r so dumb. we never want to see u again in telugu films. Another tweet, by a ‘Mahesh Bhakthudu’ said, she'll retire after 3yrs. When will you @Actor_Siddharth?
Others spurred on the hate campaign.
@raghukiran19913h wrote, It's trending guys make it big!! We should teach them.
It remains unclear which Telugu movie poster Samantha was tweeting about and the actress refused to comment when DC reached out to her for a quote.
There was, however, support too.
@prudhvi_paÂwan56m tweeted, Opinions are to be respected,this is her take on a poster.please guys, act as humans.
What’s interesting is that even Pawan Kalyan fans — a very active group on Twitter — were part of the fight. A few even claimed that it was Samantha’s supposed tweet against Pawan Kalyan that started off the hate attack.
